Improvement in marking-brushes



S. BARTLETT.

Marking-Brushes.

'Patented May 5,1874.

'UNITED STATES PATENT Crrron.

J OSH. S. BARTLETT, OF WATER VALLEY, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT rIN MARKINGeRusHEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,459, dated May 5, 1874; application filed April 21, 1874.

To all whom lt may concern.

Beit known that I, J osH. S. BARTLETT, of Water Valley, Yalabusha county, State of Mississippi, have invented an Improvement in Marking-Brushes, of which the following is aspeciiication:

This invention relates to the general construction and arrangement of the several devices forming the marking-brush, as will be hereinafter fully described.

The drawing represents a longitudinal vertical section of my improved markingbrush and the manner of holding the same in the hand.

A is the reservoir, constructed of tin or any otheri suitable material, for containing` the marking-fluid. D is a socket attached to or forming'a part of the reservoir, and in which the handle C is secured. B is an outlet-tube or socket, communicating with the interior of the reservoir, into which the tube E, holding the brush F, is secured. The tube E is made to fit snugly within the socket, or it can bev attached thereto by any other suitable means, so that it can be readily removed for cleaning it' the interior of the tube becomes clogged. The brush is secured to the tube by any wellknown means, andso arranged that the end ot' the tube will deliver the marking-fluid to the center of the brush, as clearly shown in Fig. l. H is the inlet-tube or mouth of reservoir, and extends inside a little below the lower level of outlet-tube or socket D, to act as a gage, so as not to fill the reservoir high enough with luid to run out at outlet-tube -While the part d is clasped by the thumb and irst two fingers, as clearly shown in the draw- Should the handle or brush break or b e Y worn out it can be readily removed and replaced by others.

I do not claim, broadly, the combination of a reservoir with a brush, as that is old; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of brush F, tube E, reservoir A, having sockets B D, and the handle C G, when the several parts are constructed and arranged substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

JOSH. S. BARTLETT. Witnesses:

J As. G. TRIGG, W.' H. BRisTER. 

